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TroyGator
Doubletree Resident
(204.29.77.90) on 12/8/2016 - 5:21 p.m. says: ( 505 views
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"John Glenn gave this incredible response when a political opponent said he 'never held a job'" |
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Message Replied To ========== Astronaut and senator John Glenn dies at age 95 - Columbus Dispatch 
============================== http://www.businessinsider.com/john-glenn-howard-metzenbaum-2016-12
"I spent 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I lived through two wars. I flew 149 missions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, it was my life that was on the line.
You go with me as I did out to a veterans' hospital and look those men with their mangled bodies in the eye and tell them that they didn't hold a job. You go with me to any Gold Star mother and you look her in the eye and you tell her that her son did not hold a job. You go to Arlington National Cemetery - where I have more friends than I'd like to remember - and you think about this nation, and you tell me that those people didn't have a job.
I tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your knees every day of your life thanking God that there were some men, some men, who held a job. And they required a dedication to purpose, a love of country, and a dedication to duty that was more important than life itself.
And their self-sacrifice is what has made this nation possible.
I have held a job, Howard."
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-- Starred by: GatorCane chigatorbri slide Liti-Gator GatorDJ Danda GatorME G8rSid -- "Almost everything you have in your older years is by reason of having it passed down to you by your younger self. Your habits of life and health, your home, your family, your savings." Cicero "Habits change into character." Ovid |
John Glenn gave this incredible response when a political opponent said he 'never held a job' TroyGator 12/8/2016 - 5:21 p.m.
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